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    • NollipfSenseN
      NollipfSense
      last edited by

      Decision making process for private cloud and network container in home lab to get hands dirty; so, Proxmox or ESXI? I am familiar with EXSI having used it with a FreePBX project however, I have seen many members here use Proxmox as well as ESXI...any preference?

      pfSense+ 23.09 Lenovo Thinkcentre M93P SFF Quadcore i7 dual Raid-ZFS 128GB-SSD 32GB-RAM PCI-Intel i350-t4 NIC, -Intel QAT 8950.
      pfSense+ 23.09 VM-Proxmox, Dell Precision Xeon-W2155 Nvme 500GB-ZFS 128GB-RAM PCIe-Intel i350-t4, Intel QAT-8950, P-cloud.

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        viragomann @NollipfSense
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        @nollipfsense
        I run pfSense in HA on ESXi and my home pfSense on KVM. Both do their jobs very well and work flawlessly.
        The only issue I met so far, was on ESXi pfSense logged some disk errors while running a backup with Veeam, but this did not affect any function.

        So I'd recommend, take what you prefer.

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        • NollipfSenseN
          NollipfSense @viragomann
          last edited by

          @viragomann Thanks for the reply...hope we can hear from those with Proxmox...

          pfSense+ 23.09 Lenovo Thinkcentre M93P SFF Quadcore i7 dual Raid-ZFS 128GB-SSD 32GB-RAM PCI-Intel i350-t4 NIC, -Intel QAT 8950.
          pfSense+ 23.09 VM-Proxmox, Dell Precision Xeon-W2155 Nvme 500GB-ZFS 128GB-RAM PCIe-Intel i350-t4, Intel QAT-8950, P-cloud.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Proxmox VE was a gamechanger for me. It completely changed the way I test most things.

            So, yeah, I run it and couldn't be happier. I know a lot of the other guys here also do.

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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              Proxmox VE for sure. ESX is very picky about hardware, Proxmox VE is much more forgiving. I appreciate that I can just toss more storage at it by plugging in SSDs via USB for non-critical test VMs rather than using NFS. ESX wouldn't dream of allowing that.

              Updates on Proxmox VE are super easy (it's just apt), every update on ESX was a scary adventure never knowing what would break.

              Clustering in Proxmox VE works nicely, too, and is freely available. I can shuffle VMs around live and they carry on like nothing happened.

              I will say in some areas ESX nudged it out on speed but not enough for me to deal with its headaches.

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              • NollipfSenseN
                NollipfSense @stephenw10
                last edited by

                @stephenw10, @jimp

                This is super awesome feedback, thank you...Proxmox it shall be!

                pfSense+ 23.09 Lenovo Thinkcentre M93P SFF Quadcore i7 dual Raid-ZFS 128GB-SSD 32GB-RAM PCI-Intel i350-t4 NIC, -Intel QAT 8950.
                pfSense+ 23.09 VM-Proxmox, Dell Precision Xeon-W2155 Nvme 500GB-ZFS 128GB-RAM PCIe-Intel i350-t4, Intel QAT-8950, P-cloud.

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                  michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                  last edited by

                  Most of my workloads sit in ESXi.
                  Any strategy you can think of in moving over the proxmox?

                  Firewall: NetGate,Palo Alto-VM,Juniper SRX
                  Routing: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
                  Switching: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
                  Wireless: Unifi, Aruba IAP
                  JNCIP,CCNP Enterprise

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                    Viper_Rus
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                    I use PVE. Everything is very stable and no problems.

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